Biggest news in the universe for 2019

The year 2019 began with a successful space exploration mission. NASA announced on 1 January 2019 that their New Horizons probe had successfully made contact with Earth, confirming the probe had reached the asteroid Ultima Thule. This is the furthest distance that a man-made device has ever has travelled to an extraterrestrial object. 

New Horizons flew around 3,500 km over Ultima Thule at 05:33 GMT on Tuesday, 1 January.

Another historic moment in world of space exploration also took place in January 2019. A chinese spacecraft became the first to land on the far side or “hidden face” of the Moon. This is the first time such mission has been successfully carried out. The landing took place on 3 January, 10:26am (GMT+8). The robotic probe Chang’e 4 landed in the unexplored South Pole-Aitken basin, the biggest known impact structure in the solar system.

An international team of scientists associated with the Centre for Lunar Science and Exploration (CLSE), part of NASA's Virtual Research Institute for Solar System Exploration, found evidence of what could be the Earth’s oldest rock found on the Moon. It dates back approximately four billion years.

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